rev 450+ of utility.php breaks meta templates for /content/ and /excerpt/

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Update utility.php in /carrington-core/ to a rev 450 or above.
2. Create a meta-{key}.php or meta-{key}-{value}.php template in /content/
or /excerpt/ to match a post with given keys or values. 

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Applying a meta-{key}.php or meta-{key}-{value}.php template to /content/
or /excerpt/ should allow you to control how either is displayed based on
the meta and/or key values associated with that post. However, if your
utility.php file in /carrington-core/ is updated to rev 450 or above, this
will not work. Carrington will not recognize and substitute the meta
templates. It will continue on to another matching template such as
tag-{slug}.php or the default template.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Originally downloaded Carrington JAM 1.3, have since updated the
/carrington-core/ files themselves with the newer revision versions in
code.google.com/p/carrington/. On Windows XP.

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by kai....@gmail.com on 11 Feb 2010 at 9:44

hakimjaya06 / carrington

rev 450+ of utility.php breaks meta templates for /content/ and /excerpt/ #25